After spending nearly $16 billion on artificial intelligence infrastructure in the second quarter, Elon Musk used SpaceX’s first earnings call as a public company on Tuesday to explain why he believes SpaceX is uniquely positioned to dominate the AI compute race: rocket scientists. Defending the company’s aggressive investment in AI, Musk argued that the engineering
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Journey Gunderson, executive director of the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y., explains why it’s important to have an institution devoted to the study of comedy. Jamestown, which is the hometown of Lucille Ball, will be abuzz with laughs as the center hosts the annual Lucille Ball Comedy
Elon Musk is reviving one of his famed hiring tactics as he recruits skilled trades workers for the AI data center buildout by his rocket company, SpaceX. Musk, in an X post last week, said SpaceX is hiring “exceptional engineering & skilled trades talent to build & operate the most powerful AI supercomputer clusters on
Willie Nelson has spoken out against the construction of data centers across the United States and issued a statement encouraging citizens to fight the proliferation of facilities that “only destroy the environment around them.” The country legend posted an open letter on social media describing how he grew up in Abbott, Texas, and that the
America’s largest power grid has struggled to cope with an onslaught of data centers. Now, after an auction to add more generation capacity failed, grid operator PJM Interconnection has said it will take data centers and other large users offline during power outages. The decision comes as the breakneck pace of data center construction has
HARRISBURG, Pa. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is abandoning its plan to use two rural Pennsylvania warehouses to house thousands of people. The plan had been slowed by the state’s denial of drinking water and wastewater permits, and an ICE attorney filed paperwork Wednesday withdrawing his agency’s appeal of the denial. The state had